A lazy morning turned into a lazy afternoon on the atoll this Sunday. Sometimes you really just need day of rest, am I right? Today was that day for us, although we did make it out to the chow hall for breakfast and brunch, and then finally in the early afternoon to the beach shack where the sun graciously appeared. Relaxing in the 70+ degree water is like nothing else in the world. It's liquid bliss. I can float on my back with the tingling sound of the ocean below in my ears and the caress of the gentle waves carrying me down along the shore until the shout of my boys or the chill of deeper waters pulls me back to land and reality.
Playing with old bamboo pipes from a wind chime broken by the unrelenting trade winds on the island and a large plastic bag which makes a perfect beach hot tub when placed into a large hole in the sand, we watched the boys play while floating in the warm lagoon water. It always surprises me when I go home and jump in a fresh water, chlorinated pool and realize that my body will not float on the surface like it does here in the salt infused waters of the Pacific. The water in my mom's Gulf Shores, Alabama condo pool in July is warmer than here like still bath water, but it also has a heaviness and is often teaming with mosquitoes. Swimming in my mom's pool is wonderful, but floating in the largest lagoon in the world is awesome. It makes all the days of exhausting, hard work worth it. I can't say in all honesty that there haven't been days, weeks, even months and years that I haven't longed for all the things that living in the states offers that the atoll can't, but simple days like today, spent in liquid bliss, keep me here. I don't know how I'll ever leave, but I know the day will come, probably sooner rather than later. Until then, I will enjoy the time I have left basking in the island's liquid sunshine in liquid bliss.
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